Garrison v. Colvin’s Empirical Analysis
759 F.3d 995 · 2014
Citation profile
21 federal appellate · 61 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 216 later decisions — most recently March 2024 · most notably Treichler v. Commissioner of Social Security Administration (2014), Brown-Hunter v. Colvin (2015)
21 federal appellate · 61 district ·
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1382C (§ 1614 of the Social Security Act of 1935) · 42 U.S.C. § 405 (§ 205 of the Social Security Act of 1935)
Relies on Securities and Exchange Commission v. Chenery Corporation · Magallanes v. Bowen · Andrews v. Shalala · Bunnell v. Sullivan · Seavey v. Barnhart
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 216 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) the record has been fully developed and further administrative proceedings would serve no useful purpose; (2) the ALJ has failed to provide legally sufficient reasons for rejecting evidence, whether claimant testimony or medical opinion; and (3) if the improperly discredited evidence were credited as true, the ALJ would be required to find the claimant disabled on remand.”
30 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“... it is error to reject a claimant’s testimony merely because symptoms wax and wane in the course of treatment. Cycles of improvement and debilitating symptoms are a common occurrence, and in such circumstances it is error for an ALJ to pick out a few isolated instances of improvement over a period of months or years and to treat them as a basis for concluding a claimant is capable of working.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“As a general rule, more weight should be given to the opinion of a treating source than to the opinion of doctors who do not treat the claimant.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.